[NYTr] Salvadorans Demand Justice for Monsignor Romero
 
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:45:16 -0600 (CST)

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Salvadorans Demand Justice for Monsignor Romero

San Salvador, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) Salvadoran social organizations
demanded on Friday that the Antonio Saca government comply with
recommendations by international bodies on the assassination of
Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980.

Some 25 organizations that make up Concertacion por la Paz y la
Justicia Social rejected the president's refusal to derogate a General
Amnesty Act, by virtue of which the charges against war criminals were
dropped.

Concertacion attorney David Morales expressed concern at President
Saca's contempt.

For his part, Miguel Guzman, of the Monitoring Commission on Monsignor
Romero's case, regretted that the government does not want to do
justice.

He urged San Salvador Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle to demand
compliance with the recommendations rather than becoming an accomplice
to this situation of contempt and impunity.

Monsignor Romero denounced the injustice committed by the Army against
the civil population during the armed conflict in El Salvador
(1980-1992), and was shot to death while officiating mass on March 24,
1980.

The Truth Commission that investigated the crimes committed during the
war concluded that Monsignor Romero was assassinated by a death squad
commanded by Roberto D'Aubuisson, founder of the governing Nationalist
Republican Alliance (ARENA).

Morales stressed that if the Saca government insists on not punishing
those responsible for Monsignor Romero's assassination, a second
lawsuit will be filed against the State by human rights organizations
in El Salvador.

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